thanks Denis, I'm sharing this with a friend who is doing this kind of work in China, and is just visiting me in Chiang Mai.<br><br>Michel, perhaps you can share info about your last english book,\<br><br>Michel<br><br>
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'the basic elements of human knowledge are concepts, visions,
opinions, convictions, images, ideas. These are by no means limited
and cannot be ordered in a logical manner'. <br>
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The informal but long term experiential research I have been
involved in suggests that a core consideration in the facilitation
of cooperation, at least in the fairly small face-to-face groups
that most of us seem to belong to, is what I call emotional
competence, a developed capacity for intra-, interpersonal and
social reflexivity.<br>
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I have published some criteria for emotional competence along with a
brief discussion <a href="http://www.mind-gymnasium.com/ebooks/PDFs/EmotionalCompetence.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.
I can post more on how I see cooperation/conflict being structured
if anyone is interested.<br>
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Henstra</b>:<br>
Collective intelligence has always been there. <br>
The most impeding factor, I think, always has been
the constraints of <br>
information exchange. In time and place. These
constraints have <br>
gradually been deminished by the introduction of
script, book printing, <br>
mass media. But nowadays with internet and other
communication <br>
technology these constraints can be neglected.<br>
The impeding factor that now comes to surface is a
harder nut to crack. It has to do with the
difference between information and human knowledge.<br>
Information can be assembled from a limited number
of bits, letters, numbers etc. But the basic
elements of human knowledge are concepts, visions,
opinions, convictions, images, ideas. These are by
no means limited and cannot be ordered in a logical
manner. <br>
So picking the elements of knowledge from the ocean
(representing the collective), analogous to the way
Google picks information from the internet, is not
straightforward yet.<br>
One way that should work is to organise information
in the way the brain does.<br>
That is to construct self reinforcing association
tables between information elements.<br>
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